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Some Burger King customers are finding it hard to swallow that the home of the Whopper could move to Canada. Investors seemed to welcome the announcement by Burger King late Sunday that it was in talks to buy Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain Tim Hortons and create the world’s third-largest fast-food restaurant company. The news pushed shares of both companies up more than 20 percent. But customers were already voicing their discontent with the 60-year-old hamburger chain because of its plans to relocate its corporate headquarters from Miami to Canada in a deal that could lower its taxes. …

"...The 2010 Conservative American Contract With America Lowering Taxes - We're taxed enough already! Not just saying no to new taxes or tax increases, but saying YES to lowering tax rates across the board for all Americans who pay taxes, and to lowering business taxes to promote economic growth. Energizing America the Right Way! - Trade wind for nuclear power! Let the private sector figure out if wind and solar energy can be profitable. Get the government out of the way so more nuclear power plants and clean-coal power plants can be built all around the nation right now!Trade solar...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 09-53 Governor Palin Supports Extending Motor Fuel Tax Suspension March 10, 2009, Juneau, Alaska – Governor Sarah Palin pledged her support today for Senator Bettye Davis' bill to extend Alaska's suspension of the motor fuel tax. Senate Bill 14 extends a portion of the governor's multi-phase statewide energy plan she introduced last year to help Alaskans combat the high cost of energy. "Alaskans are unique among Americans in the contiguous states in terms of transportation costs," Palin said. "In rural Alaska, particularly, many people are still paying outrageous fuel costs. Heating and fuel bills are double...

Jonah Goldberg recently wrote the book “Liberal Fascism”. He was interviewed by Glen Beck and the interviews can be seen on YouTube.. There are six parts to watch. As you know, “fascism” is the idea that everything and everybody must serve the state. i.e., the state knows best. The state will order your lives for the good of the state. In a way its like collectivism. It denies the individual. Liberalism or progressivism seeks to create a nanny state in which the state mandates all kinds of things for the good of the people. And no person is entitled to...

OPEN LETTER to the 2009 Republican Congress

Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson wants to curb government spending by halting federal hiring. If elected, Thompson said, he would stop government agencies from acquiring new personnel for one year and his administration would perform senior-level assessments of agency priorities. “This will give a new administration time to assess its personnel requirements in order to ‘right size’ the federal workforce,” according to a statement posted earlier this week on Thompson’s campaign Web site. Two other candidates have promised to reshape the federal workforce. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said he would not rehire half the positions that will...

Our Worst President Ever? By Victor Davis Hanson From the November/December 2007 Issue The American That’s what some on both left and right are saying about George W. Bush. Don’t count him out yet, VICTOR DAVIS HANSON advises. Bush Geopolitics By October, 15 months before his presidency would end, George Bush’s approval ratings still hovered around 30 percent. His administration will go down, say historians such as Columbia’s Eric Foner and Princeton’s Sean Wilentz, as a disaster. As Wilentz put it, “Many his­torians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all...

Last week Fred Thompson was speaking to a crowd of close to three hundred people at the Music Man Square in Mason City, Iowa, explaining how he accidentally fell into a movie career. In the early 1980s Hollywood producers came to Tennessee to make a film about a famous case Thompson had handled as a young lawyer. "They asked me to play myself," Thompson told the audience in his folksy, Southern drawl, "and I said, well, they can't tell me I'm doing it wrong - although they still did from time to time." The line always gets a big laugh,...

Lucien Bouchard Joseph Facal Pierre Fortin Robert Lacroix Sylvie Lalande Claude Montmarquette André Pratte Denise Robert Jean-Claude Robert Guy Saint-Pierre Marie Saint Pierre Denise Verreault October 19, 2005 With demographic decline and global competition threatening our future, Québec cannot allow itself to be the republic of the status quo. We are concerned. Concerned for the Québec we love. Concerned for our people, who have weathered many storms but who seem oblivious to the dangers that today threaten its future. In the past 50 years, Québec’s economy has seen unprecedented growth: • in 1961, the average annual income of French-speaking Quebeckers...

I’ve been saddened over the past year watching my fellow Republicans let the ultra-conservative wing take the party off course. Other moderates like me want smaller government with local control and good effective solutions to the problems that confront our communities. The far right appears to be focused on establishing power and control. Chris Stevens was out campaigning at the League City SportsPlex the evening of Feb. 28 and I had the opportunity to meet him and explore some of his beliefs. Tax cuts, vouchers for stay-at-home schooling moms and forcing local schools to spend 75 percent — rather than...

Jim Saitman said goodbye and good riddance to the Inland Empire last September and hasn't looked back. An exterminator and termite inspector, he moved his family from Fontana to Buckeye, Ariz. -- population 20,000, just 35 miles west of Phoenix. "I hate California," said Saitman, 37, reciting a list of reasons ranging from high taxes to illegal immigration to what he termed oppressive regulations on the pest-control industry. "I (was) killing myself to provide for my family," he said. "I'll never go back." Saitman grew up in Monrovia, and in 1994 he and his wife, Cheryl, bought their Fontana house...

the real story behind the story -- the relocation of US industrial activity from higher-cost, higher-tax geographical areas to lower-cost/tax ones:... And experts warn that even though tax revenues are rising in most of the country, demands on state budgets - particularly for education, health care and pensions - are growing even faster... What it will take, I think, is somebody somewhere coming up with a catchy name for this new American industrial decentrification.

Terry, a nationally known abortion opponent and spokesman for Terri Schiavo's parents this year, is scheduled to announce today he will run to unseat King next year. He had previously announced he was considering a run. Terry says the district has no room for moderation and that he can better represent Republican principles. "I want a smaller government, lower taxes and more respect of life and marriage," he said Tuesday. King helped lead a group of nine Republican senators who blocked a bill aimed at saving Schiavo, sealing the brain-damaged woman's fate. She died March 31, and autopsy results released...

When he was named president of the Club for Growth (clubforgrowth.org) last year, Pat Toomey didn't need anyone to tell him how important it was having the Republican lobbying group on his side in a tight political race. When the former Lehigh Valley congressman almost unseated Arlen Specter in the Senate primary last spring, the club — which specializes in helping candidates who favor small government, free markets and low taxes — contributed nearly $1 million to his campaign. I asked Toomey about his new job and his future political plans, when I called him at his offices in Washington:...

End corporate income tax By Richard W. Rahn On Nov. 18, in a speech given at the Finance Ministry in Vienna, Austria, the very highly regarded European economist and first woman president of the Mont Pelerin Society, Professor Victoria Curzon Price, called for eliminating the corporate income tax. There, in the center of socialist Europe, was not only the call to get rid of this destructive tax, but almost everyone in an audience of economists, various government finance officials and public policy experts appeared to agree with her. The idea and practice of the corporate income tax has been dying...

"Another drag on our economy is the current tax code, which is a complicated mess -- filled with special interest loopholes, saddling our people with more than six billion hours of paperwork and headache every year. The American people deserve -- and our economic future demands -- a simpler, fairer, pro-growth system. In a new term, I will lead a bipartisan effort to reform and simplify the federal tax code."-President Bush, 9/2/04 President Bush's Agenda For A Fairer, Simpler Tax CodeMaking the Tax Code Fairer, Simpler, and Pro-Growth.  President Bush will work with Congress to make the tax code...

America's Ownership Society: Expanding Opportunities http://www.gop.com/news/read.aspx?ID=4528

Most of us can still remember when the Republicans won Congress. The "Republican Revolution" they called it. They had great ideas and big plans. From the very first day, that revolution started off with a bang. Whatever happened to that? Anyone remember? No? Well, we do. Generally speaking, the left made fun of them and instead of standing up and fighting for what they said they believed in, they ran for cover. Which means, many of those good ideas, most of the promises to the American people, were lost. Below is an article published here on April 11, 1997 concerning...

<p>Back in the 1980s, a lot of best-selling books were written about how the United States should emulate Japan. Pursuing free market economics based on individual entrepreneurs was passe, so it was often said by Ronald Reagan's critics. Instead, we should follow Japan's lead and actively use government to pick winners and losers. Its all-powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) was the wave of the future, we were told over and over again.</p>

<p>Tax change angers cigarette foes The old rule was deemed 'unfair,' but critics predict an increase in smoking. By John Hill -- Bee Capitol Bureau Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Sunday, September 15, 2002 A regulation adopted last week by the state's tax board will lower the cost of some cigarettes and drain millions of dollars from the beleaguered state treasury.</p>